Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch Harry Bosch Created by Michael Connelly "No, not Harry Bosch," he said quietly... "It's always just what he wants. He's always been a private investigator, even when he carried a badge." (an FBI agent on how Harry works, from Lost Light) EDITOR'S NOTE: And after eight novels with a badge, Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch finally became an official PI in Lost Light (2003), with both a California license and first person narration. It was such a seismic shockwave in crime fiction circles at the time that it took not one, but two contributors (both die-hard Connelly fans) to give me the whole scoop. My sincere thanks to both Kelly Levendorf and Dale Stoyer for filling us in, and for being stand-up guys about it. Sadly, Harry went back to the LAPD, and I thought that was it. But in The Crossing (2015), he finally retired, and found himself (reluctantly) working once more as a privater investigator, reluctantly working for his half brother, Mickey Haller . .

HIERONYMOUS "HARRY" BOSCH was named after a 15th century painter infamous for his richly detailed landscapes of wanton debauchery and imaginatively graphic violence. Our Harry, meanwhile, grew up in Los Angeles, largely an orphan and occasionally in foster care after his mother was arrested for prostitution and later murdered. Following a stint in Vietnam as a "tunnel rat," he became a police officer, eventually rising through the ranks to become a Homicide Detective-Three in the LAPD. But Harry is more than just a cop -- he's a man with a mission, a mission to, in his own words, "speak for the dead." With a single-mindedness for doing right that is equal parts passion and arrogance, Connelly's most famous character has brilliantly succeeded ("homicide is a calling, not a career"), closing both politically sensitive and long unsolved cases, including the decades old murder of his own mother. But often at great personal and professional cost to Harry. This is definitely a series to read chronologically, as Connelly uses elements hinted at in several books to great effect in those that follow.

The first eight books in this series follow Harry through some of his adventures as an LAPD Detective, although he spends much of that time serving out suspensions or struggling to keep what's left of his career. Lost Light (2003), the ninth book in the series brings dramatic changes into Harry's life (and, coincidentally, is his first adventure in first person narrative). He's no longer a cop, but has retired after twenty-eight years, taking a whole slew of his unsolved cases with him. He has a PI license but isn't sure he wants to use it. What he really wants is to continiue to speak for the dead. And although the book ends on a note indicative of a major change in Harry's life, it would seem that mission is far too deeply rooted in Harry's psyche for him to ever completely retire. Michael Connelly first burst upon the scene with The Black Echo in 1992, which promptly nabbed the Edgar for Best First Mystery of that year. But it was a goal which Connelly had long been aiming tfor, ever since he was a student at the University of Florida back in the seventies, where he had discovered the books of Raymond Chandler.

After graduating in 1980, having majored in journalism with a minor in creative writing, Connelly worked at various newspapers in Florida, mostly working the crime beat. A magazine story he co-wrote on a major airplane crash was later short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, and helped land him a job as a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times. The Black Echo, which introduced Harry Bosch, was his first novel. Besides the Bosch series, Connelly has written The Poet, a thriller which introduced tabloid reporter Jack McEvoy as a protagonist in 1996, and Blood Work, featuring former FBI profiler Terry McCaleb in 1998. 2000's Void Moon introduced Cassie Black, a Las Vegas thief, and 2005 saw the introduction of grunt criminal attorney Mickey Haller in The Lincoln Lawyer.

One of the most respected and popular mystery writers around, Connelly's books been translated in 35 languages and have won the Edgar , the Anthony, the Macavity, the Los Angeles Times Best Mystery/Thriller Award, the Shamus, the Dilys, the Nero, the Barry, the Maltese Falcon (Japan), the .38 Caliber (France), the Grand Prix (France), and the Premio Bancarella (Italy). In 2003-04, he served as the President of the Mystery Writers of America, and he has written for TV and film. Connelly currently lives with his family in Florida. TRIVIA Harry teams up with McCaleb in A Darkness More Than Night (2001) and also makes an un-billed but hardly-unrecognizable cameo in Robert Crais' The Last Detective , featuring Crais' L.A. private eye Elvis Cole . Connelly returns the favor in Lost Light, as Harry spots his neighbor, a certain LA private eye in a classic yellow 'Vette, and gives him the "smooth sailing, brother" salute.

There's a connection between Bosch and Mickey Haller , the disillusioned lawyer/hero of Connelly's 2005 The Lincoln Lawyer. In the second Bosch novel, The Black Ice, Harry discovers that his father was the famous criminal defense attorney, J. Michael Haller. At his funeral, Harry discovers that he has several half brothers and half sisters, including Mickey. In fact, Mickey turned out to be so popular, he's returned in more novels, both with and without Harry. EVIDENCE "I think it's the little things I miss the most about my former life. For more than twenty years I carried a small bound notebook in my coat pocket." -- Harry on being an ex-cop, from Lost Light SHORT STORIES "Cielo Azul" (2001) In A Darkness More Than Night, Harry and Terry McCaleb speak of a case they worked together many years before which still seems to haunt them both. This is that story, available only through Connelly's mailing list.

How ‘Bosch’ creator Michael Connelly turned his bestsellers into a TV series - The Washington Post How ‘Bosch’ creator Michael Connelly turned his bestsellers into a TV series The inside track on Washington politics. Be the first to know about new stories from PowerPost. Sign up to follow, and we’ll e-mail you free updates as they’re published. You’ll receive free e-mail news updates each time a new story is published. You’re all set! By Neely Tucker By Neely Tucker March 19, 2015 Follow @neelytucker Titus Welliver as Harry Bosch. Credit: Amazon Studios “ Bosch ,” the Amazon-original series starring Titus Welliver as veteran L.A. homicide detective Harry Bosch, has been renewed for a second season after strong critical and online success. Author Michael Connelly , 58, a former L.A. Times reporter, has sold nearly 50 million copies of his 27 books, 19 of which follow the detective. The series started in 1992, and this is the first TV adaptation.

Post reporter Neely Tucker tracked down Connelly this morning while he was in London, vacationing with his wife and daughter, as the trio walked near London Bridge. This is an edited version of the conversation (we cut out, for example, the part in which a passerby recognized Connelly, stopped him and asked him to autograph a Bosch book, which Connelly politely did). The exchange regarding Ferguson was in a follow-up e-mail. -Photo: Mark DeLong When was the series shot? We shot the pilot in October of 2013 and Amazon put it up on their site in February 2014. People could vote if they wanted to see more. After about a month, they said, “Yeah, give us a 10 episode season.” So we began shooting in August and went to December. Day to day, week to week, what’s been your involvement? Pretty high. I was in the writing room every week in pre-production. I was involved in finding locations to shoot around L.A. I was involved in casting and I brought up the name of Titus Welliver – he wasn’t on the initial list of actors. I threw his name in the discussion and he wound up being Harry Bosch.

That was pretty cool. In production, I was there, but I don’t have any experience in that regard. I was just enamored of the project, which I’d been involved in a long time. I was more of a cheerleader on the set. What was it that you saw in Welliver that said, “that’s my Harry Bosch”? I’d seen and liked him in a lot of things – “ Deadwood ,” “ Argo ,” “ The Town .” But after the great success of “24,” Kiefer Sutherland did “ Touch ,” which didn’t do nearly as well. I had DVR’ed the pilot but never watched it. One night I had insomnia, so I finally looked at it. Titus was the guest star and played a guy who had post-traumatic stress disorder. He had behind the eyes what I wanted Bosch to have…when he came in (for the tryout), he played a scene from the pilot and talked about the character. We didn’t say, “You got the job!” right then, but we waited for him to go out of the room. There were about seven or eight of us in there.

We all looked at each other and said, “That’s Harry Bosch.” Titus Welliver as Harry Bosch, Jamie Hector as Jerry Edgar. Credit: Amazon Studios How much is straight from the books in season one? Harry Bosch is 100 percent, and L.A. is 100 percent. But we blended three books together that, as books, stood apart. We had to create evidentiary connections. We had to play with Bosch having been in Vietnam, because Titus Welliver is too young to have been there, so we changed his military experience. The books are also Harry Bosch’s point of view. If we shot it that way, we’d kill our star. He’d be working 14 hours a day. So in “Echo Park,” there’s a serial killer who escapes on a field trip showing where he killed people. In the series, we created this whole relationship for the killer to have with his mother, which is not in the books, so we could have time where Bosch is not on screen. That’s a significant change. And we chose to make Harry’s daughter 14 at the start of the show, so that she can converse with him. In the books, she starts off at five.

But the books are essentially about Harry Bosch and L.A. and to me, those things came out so solid. In the books, it’s explained that he has this house with a great view in the hills because he’d sold his rights to one particular case he’d been involved in to a television show. In the series, it’s been changed to a movie, with the title of your first Bosch book, “The Black Echo.” That was fun. His house is much grander in the show than it is in books, so we had to come up with a new explanation for how a police detective would have that kind of house. In the books, it’s kind of a shack but with a million-dollar view. You do a lot of research into real events that you then place in the books. How much of the series is based on things that actually happened? The trial portion that’s in the first four episodes, that’s straight out of “ The Concrete Blonde. ” I wrote that book while I was still at the L.A. Times, and my day job at the time was covering the civil trial of seven cops who were being sued for killing four robbers in a shootout at a McDonald’s. They were cleared by the D.A.

and the LAPD, but were being sued by the family. So, then, at night, I was writing “Blonde,” and was using some things word for word — questions from the attorneys, things like that. One of the cops was asked on the stand, “How many people have you killed?” And he answered, “I don’t know,” because he’d been in Vietnam. I remember thinking “great line.” So that went into the book, and in the series, Bosch says that exact line in his trial. Hey man, I gotta tell you: The reporter in the series isn’t doing those of us still in tribe any favors. He’s a jerk! You know how they say how people who used to smoke become the most vocal anti-smokers? Now I’m the hardest on reporters of anybody I know. (Laughs.) I don’t know the psychology of that…but the same reporter is back in Season Two, and he and Harry have straightened it out. Millions of readers love Bosch…but the series opens with him, a white cop, on trial for shooting a minority suspect, who may or may not be guilty.

In light of current events, like Ferguson, did it make you at all nervous to open the series with that, before new viewers got a chance to know Bosch? We had finishing filming all of the courtroom scenes when the events began unfurling in Ferguson. It was a bit of a strange coincidence since what we were doing was drawn from a book published in ’94 in the shadow of the Rodney King case. We managed to make one reference to Ferguson in Episode 8, but that was it. I think it all goes to underline Harry’s story and how difficult it is to be a good and relentless cop while always being second guessed from inside and out. Do you have a plan for how many seasons you’d like to do, an overall arc? We said at the beginning we’d like to get 60 hours, which would be five or six years. That would be an amazing thing. I think we can delineate the character in that time. So is all of this eating in to book production time? Yeah. It does. I’m paying the price now for my super involvement in the show. I have a book due in July and I’m way behind.

I remember you said in an earlier conversation that the hardest thing about writing was “the getting and keeping of momentum.” I’d never heard an author put it that way before, and I’ve always remembered it. That’s the whole trick, yeah. So it’s a good thing that we just found out we’re getting a second season – it’s a “champagne problem,” to quote my agent, but it’s still a problem, since I’m already behind on this next book. So I’m at the stage of getting the momentum back. Is this a Bosch or Mickey Haller book? I’m calling it a Bosch book, but Mickey Haller is in it. In the last book, Bosch went out the door of LAPD. In this one, “The Crossing,” he’s convinced by Haller to investigate the case against his client. So he’s grudgingly sort of going over to the other side, at least in this one. lifestyle Bosch: New Amazon prime series from the books of Michael Connelly Friday 13 February 2015 at 1:45PM Harry Bosch is a cop on the edge.

You can tell, because in the first episode the gravel-voiced lawman flouts LAPD protocol, yells at his superior, gets into slanging matches with Internal Affairs and – worst of all – smokes right next to a non-smoking sign. Bosch is Amazon Prime’s first shot at cracking the lucrative crime serial market, but there's more to him than that. For starters, if his “maverick cop on the loose” schtick sounds a bit old-fashioned, it’s because he’s been around for a while. Detective Hieronymous “Harry” Bosch first appeared in Michael Connelly’s debut 1992 novel The Black Echo. The then-42-year-old cop took hold of reader’s imaginations, selling about 58 million copies worldwide in 39 languages and winning Connelly bucketloads of awards along the way. Now Bosch is partners in crime with an on-demand service that is starting to collect awards of its own – Amazon Prime won two Golden Globes for its original content earlier this year.

What's more, the series is spearheaded by writer/producer Eric Overmeyer – whose crime drama rap sheet includes Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order and The Wire – as well as Connelly (above), who was keen to protect his legacy. “A lot of entities and studios in Hollywood like to separate the book writer from the project to turn it into a film or TV show,” he says, “but I’ve been writing about Harry Bosch in books my whole career. It was not a character I was just gonna say ‘hey, take him and good luck!’” It’s an approach that’s largely paid off; while the series takes a little while to warm up and can come across slightly clichéd, it’s actually pretty gripping and has a nice grungy feel that’s a tonic to the endless hours of Scandi-noir which form the bulk of high-class crime drama these days. Overmeyer and Connelly have cleverly weaved together three of the writer’s books (The Concrete Blonde, City of Bones and Echo Park) to create a well-balanced narrative unfolding over ten episodes, which is less inspired by shows like The Killing and more “like a book” itself, Connelly explains.

A large chunk of the series is taken from one book in particular – 1994's The Concrete Blonde, in which Bosch is put on trial for killing a suspect. Here it’s neatly used as a subplot to force the usually taciturn Bosch into revealing chunks of his torrid backstory for newcomers, who Connelly says they are keen to welcome alongside the diehards who’ve been reading since the 90s. But they're confident that longtime fans won’t be disappointed either. Titus Welliver, who carries the weight of playing the much-imagined lead in the series, says: “You can’t please everybody, so there’ll be people who say: Titus Welliver is not the Harry Bosch I had in my head – and that’s OK. The important thing is we maintain the integrity of this character that Michael created, and that we have done.” Considering the books’ success, it’s almost surprising that Bosch has never been played on screen before – one of Connelly’s other books, The Lincoln Lawyer, was adapted for film recently with Matthew McConaughey – but apparently an earlier film deal fell through and languished on the shelf for years.

Now Connelly’s teamed up with Amazon because “they’re the first ones who wanted it,” and he’s happy to finally bring the character to the screen – but surely things have changed since the idea was first mooted? Is he worried that in a world of Sherlock , Sarah Lund, or any of the dozens of cop shows in America, Harry Bosch might not stand out? “I think the selling point on most cop shows now is how detectives have a certain skillset which makes them supercops, things like that – and we never have talked in terms of Harry Bosch being a supercop at all,” Connelly suggests. Welliver agrees. “Harry is not the standard fare of being the hard-as-nails, heroic character. He’s really a quintessential antihero. But he’s not Mackey from the Shield, and he’s not Sipowicz from NYPD blue.

He’s very much an individual, and he makes mistakes – so it’s not just this one-note macho character.” Connelly concludes: “It’s really about him, and his relationship to the victims he’s never met, his relationship to LA – and hopefully on those dimensions this will stand out as being something different.” Amazon.com: Bosch Season 1: Titus Welliver, Jamie Hector, Amy Aquino, Annie Wersching, Lance Reddick, Jim McKay, Kevin Dowling, Ernest Dickerson, Roxann Dawson, Alex Zakrzewski, Matt Early Beesley, Thomas Carter, Michael Connelly, Eric Overmyer, Tom Smuts, Diane Frolov, Andrew Schneider, George Pelecanos, William N. Fordes, Jennifer Ames, Steve Turner, Joe Gonzalez, Terrill Lee Lankford, Mikkel Bondesen, Jan David Frouman, Henrik Bastin: Amazon Digital Services LLC More Purchase Options 2. Chapter Two: Lost Light A routine traffic stop lands a suspect who poses a lethal new threat, while Bosch and J. Edgar (Jamie Hector) pursue a promising lead in the bones case.

Bosch locks horns with Deputy Chief Irving (Lance Reddick) over his ongoing court battle, just as his relationship with Brasher picks up. And murder suspect Raynard Waits (Jason Gedrick) makes a startling confession about Bosch's cold case. TV-MA CC Language: English Runtime: 42 minutes Release date: February 13, 2015 Buy HD $2.99 More Purchase Options 3. Chapter Three: Blue Religion After the young victim in the bones case is identified, Bosch and J. Edgar are pulled into the troubled world of the boy's family. As Bosch's own trial escalates, his romance with Brasher takes a turn. And an intense confrontation with Raynard Waits forces Bosch to rethink everything. TV-MA CC Language: English Runtime: 45 minutes Release date: February 13, 2015 Buy HD $2.99 More Purchase Options 4. Chapter Four: Fugazi The bones investigation uncovers the family's dark past. As Bosch's court case reaches a climactic verdict, he gets caught up in a dangerous field trip with Waits, who may be setting him up.

A stunning turn of events leads to a frantic citywide manhunt, and Bosch is back on the hot seat. TV-MA CC Language: English Runtime: 47 minutes Release date: February 13, 2015 Buy HD $2.99 More Purchase Options 5. Chapter Five: Mama's Boy As the Raynard Waits matter escalates, Deputy Chief Irving sidelines Bosch. The detective turns his focus to unraveling the mystery of the bones case - until he becomes ensnared in a dangerous game of cat and mouse. TV-MA CC Language: English Runtime: 41 minutes Release date: February 13, 2015 Buy HD $2.99 More Purchase Options 6. Chapter Six: Donkey's Years Bosch travels to Las Vegas to see his teenage daughter, Maddie, and to gain insight into Waits from his ex-wife, Eleanor Wish, once a brilliant forensic profiler. Back in LA, Waits taunts Bosch as he begins backing up his threats. Bosch returns to a maelstrom as the simple questioning of a witness in the bones case endangers Brasher.

TV-MA CC Language: English Runtime: 43 minutes Release date: February 13, 2015 Buy HD $2.99 More Purchase Options 7. Chapter Seven: Lost Boys Bosch struggles to manage both professional and personal fallout, as an echo of his past helps him discover pivotal clues in the Waits case. As the stakes escalate, a restless Waits hatches a deadly plan. TV-MA CC Language: English Runtime: 46 minutes Release date: February 13, 2015 Buy HD $2.99 More Purchase Options 8. Chapter Eight: High Low Bosch gains a new ally in his ex-wife Eleanor. Deputy Chief Irving makes a series of deals that will shape the future of the police department - and possibly even the city itself. Waits's disturbing focus on Bosch intensifies. TV-MA CC Language: English Runtime: 42 minutes Release date: February 13, 2015 Buy HD $2.99 More Purchase Options 9. Chapter Nine: The Magic Castle The true story of the bones murder is finally revealed, placing Bosch in hot water and stretching the LAPD to the breaking point.

Bosch's own painful past leads him headlong into a showdown with Raynard Waits. TV-MA CC Language: English Runtime: 40 minutes Release date: February 13, 2015 Buy HD $2.99 More Purchase Options 10. Chapter Ten: Us and Them Bosch has to face the aftermath of his confrontation with Waits, while his daughter's unexpected visit offers some precious time together. In the wake of the bones investigation, Bosch's job is in jeopardy, and he's suddenly on the outside once again. TV-MA CC Language: English Runtime: 45 minutes Release date: February 13, 2015 Buy HD $2.99 More Purchase Options Bonus: Bosch: Behind the Scenes Go behind the scenes for a look at the making of Bosch, the Amazon Original series based on Michael Connelly's best-selling novels. CC Language: English Runtime: 1 minute Release date: February 13, 2015 Bonus: Bosch: A Look Ahead A sneak peek at Season 1 of Bosch, which follows LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch as he pursues justice at all costs.

CC Language: English Runtime: 1 minute Release date: February 13, 2015 More Purchase Options Bonus: Bosch: The Official Trailer - Season 1 Every murder tells the tale of a city. The official Season 1 trailer for Bosch, the Amazon Original drama based on Michael Connelly's best-selling novels. Premiering February 13th, 2015, only on Amazon Prime. TV-NR CC Language: English Runtime: 1 minute Release date: January 22, 2015 Michael Connelly Talks 'Bosch' and Books in Paris Michael Connelly Talks 'Bosch' and Books in Paris Tweet Share Bestselling L.A. crime novelist Michael Connelly paid a special visit to Paris last week, where he offered up a public master class to promote his brand new Amazon Prime series, Bosch , as well as the French release of his 2012 novel, The Black Box.

Speaking to a packed house at the Forum des Images, where the first two episodes of Bosch will premiere at the upcoming Series Mania festival, Connelly discussed his long and prolific career, from his days as a crime beat reporter to his numerous books featuring LAPD detective Harry Bosch, to screen adaptations like Clint Eastwood’s Blood Work and the Matthew McConaughey starrer, The Lincoln Lawyer. Connelly mentioned how seeing Robert Altman’s 1973 noir film, The Long Goodbye, as a teenager in Florida prompted him to read the works of Raymond Chandler, which convinced him to become a crime writer himself one day – preferably in Los Angeles. He moved there in the 80’s and worked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times while moonlighting as a novelist, although it wasn’t until his fifth book, The Poet, was published in 1996 that he began to achieve a certain acclaim. “L.A. shimmers out there as the last resort,” Connelly said about his favorite city, which has been the subject of all of his novels since 1992’s The Black Echo, although he now lives back in Florida.

“There’s a constant friction there between the haves and the have-nots, and it’s out of such tension that fiction can rise.” Connelly described his initially circumspect relationship with Hollywood, where he originally sold the rights to the Bosch character, although a film was never made at the time. “Hemingway once said that the best thing for a writer to do was to drive to the California border, toss their manuscript over, and drive away as fast as possible,” quipped the author, although he seemed pleased with McConaughey’s depiction of fast-talking attorney Mickey Haller in Lawyer. The writer spoke enthusiastically about the new TV series Bosch, whose first season premiered this past February on Amazon Prime. Created by Connelly and developed by The Wire writer-producer Eric Overmyer, Bosch features Titus Welliver as the honest, hard-hitting L.A. cop whose origin story was inspired by the life of fellow Angeleno author James Ellroy (“a major influence”).

Connelly oversees the writing of each episode and proudly told the crowd that he had ensured that “every shot was done in Los Angeles.” For those concerned that after 17 novels and 10 serial episodes (with a second season of Bosch to air next year), Connelly may have exhausted all aspects of his preferred character, he warned that there are still “new directions” for the detective to take and claimed that he hopes the book he’s writing when he dies is a Bosch book. He summed up the detective genre as one whose familiar tropes allow writers to explore deeper themes. “Crime fiction is a frame that you put around a social issue,” is how Connelly described the modus operandi of his novels, the next of which, The Crossing — in which Harry Bosch and Mickey Haller will team up to solve a case — is due out next fall. Like his other books, there will be parts that are pure invention and parts inspired by true stories — stories the author has gathered from his years interviewing cops, criminals, victims and prosecutors, trying to understand what drives humans to run afoul of the law. “That’s what a murder scene is,” Connelly concluded.

“A world gone wrong.” Bosch (TV Series 2014– ) - IMDb IMDb 7 January 2017 5:00 AM, UTC NEWS There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error With Prime Video WATCH NOW An LAPD homicide detective works to solve the murder of a 13-year-old boy while standing trial in federal court for the murder of a serial killer. Creator: Bosch focuses on taking down a criminal mastermind. Eleanor delivers for the FBI. Opposing forces with violent intentions all converge on the same spot. 9.3 Heightened circumstances create an unlikely family reunion for Bosch. A surprising revelation forces Harry back to square one on his case. The FBI approaches Eleanor with an enticing deal. George ... 9.1 The season finale reaches an explosive climax. Bosch and Edgar discover the final piece of the Tony Allen investigation. Harry searches to uncover the truth behind his mother's murder.

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If you can smoke and drink while doing it, it's not a sport. A solid start with an excellent cast 24 February 2014 | by KarinaGW Gotta remember that what we all are reviewing now is a pilot and pilots have specific missions: to set up genre, mood & character Bosch begins sharp and cleanly. It clearly establishes it's well-cast characters and their relationships to each other. Titus Welliver plays the title character exceptionally well. His backstory is subtly revealed in the occasional dialog bit & look. The culmination of all this at the end is nerve-wracking. The other actors brought into play his co-workers and adversaries are splendid as well. I was especially pleased to see Alan Rosenberg turn up. I imagine there will probably be a couple performances/relationships that will get tweaked, but that's to be expected....it's a pilot. But, there is absolutely nothing that screams out or even whispers "I was a bad idea, cut me" The pilot starts the show with two concurrent story arcs, both of which are fairly represented and balanced. It's nice modern version of the hard-boiled detective.

Note: I have not (yet) read the books, so I have no idea if its faithful to them at all, but I enjoyed the heck out of it. I really hope it gets picked up. 25 of 33 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Nine Dragons Audiobook | Michael Connelly | Audible.com "Len Cariou Makes Bosch Boring When He's Not" I thought I had read or listened to the entire Bosch series, but having just finished seasons 1 & 2 of the TV series (via Amazon Video, a must see for Bosch lovers), I realized had skipped this one. The reason I skipped it was the narrator. I couldn't finish it. Actually when Connelly came to Greensboro promoting The Overlook, I asked him if he had any input of who narrates his novels. "A little", he answered and asked why. Cariou reads with no emotion and his voice doesn't have the tone and range to distinguish between characters. His feminine voices are just awful. If you doubt me, listen to Burt Reynolds read Angels Flight or Titus Welliver's work on more recent novels.

Having said that, 9 Dragons is a fascinating and suspenseful novel on its own. It is also an essential edition to the Bosch series. It represents a key turning point in Bosch's personal life. A couple of other fascinating tidbits from the Connelly visit... After the success of the first few Bosch novels Connelly noticed from book signings at least half of his readers were women. This was contrary to his publisher's opinion. Connelly wanted covers that would attract both sexes. The publsher insisted on masculine covers and simply would not be convinced otherwise. It was only after his series became so successful they had to listen to him that Connelly got the covers he desired. About the jazz fetish Bosch is so consumed with, Connelly said that came from his writing habits. He said he was always more of a rock and blues fan, but those genres were distracting his writing. So he listens to jazz as he writes and his jazz knowledge grew from that. Should you purchase this? Only if you don't have the time to read it for yourself. "Will the real Harry Bosch please stand up?" I've listened to Bosch books by Cariou and by others.

I've enjoyed them all, but for some reason the Harry Bosch I know and love seemed to be missing. I thought it might have been the narration that put such a different spin on the character, but I'm not so sure. Bosch has always been headstrong and independent. He gets results with his no nonsense approach, but all of his redeeming characteristics were missing. Before I was halfway through the book I was ready to stop listening because Harry was just coming across as a racist, conceited overly self-involved jerk. I was very disappointed with him. The story was interesting enough for me to actually finish it. It was a great story, with the exception of Harry. The one true bright spot of the book was a cameo by one of our favorite lawyers. I'd love to hear more from him and the REAL Harry. "May favorite Harry Bosch novel!" Michael Connelly releases his new Harry Bosch novel The Wrong Side of Goodbye on November 1. All of Connelly's novels are in my library and while I have rated all I have reviewed only one of the 18 Bosch novels. 9 Dragons is my favorite novel in the series; it is also very different from all of the rest.

His daughter Maddie has lived with her mother ex-FBI agent Eleanor Wish, Bosch's ex-wife, since their separation and divorce. At the beginning of the novel they live in Hong Kong; the novel setting is there. 9 Dragons in the one must read novel in the Harry Bosch series. Of course, listening to the earlier novels adds to perspective.

Question: Which author created the detective Harry Bosch?
Answer: Michael Connelly